Our inspiration to start the business consisted of two things, my grandfather and the pandemic. Originally, my grandfather ran a lawn care service several years before he suffered a stroke. He pretty much taught us everything from weed-eating to hedging to how-to-price, etc. Click to read more about this family business story.
Listen to Jonathan Cornelius (B.S. ’20) of Meet & Innovate on Business RadioX at GSU. Meet & Innovate, is a diversity-focused recruitment platform that leverages technology to place diverse job seekers in their dream internship and full-time job opportunities. Listen in.
After Georgia State’s Main Street Entrepreneurs Seed Fund and Georgia Tech’s Create-X, the KemNu team is tackling student engagement on campus and online. Read more.
Twitch has partnered with Cxmmunity and is launching the second season of their HBCU Esports League to promote esports programs. Learn more.
The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute (ENI) participated in the New Graduate Student Orientation Resource Expo recently held by The Graduate School. Like many other things these days, it was presented both in virtual and on-campus formats to provide access to all incoming graduate students. Learn more.
After meeting at Georgia State, Lance (MBA ’03) and April (B.A. ’01) Ledbetter embarked on a lifelong journey together. As husband and wife and co-founders of Dust-to-Digital, a Grammy Award-winning record label mining music’s past to preserve it for future audiences. Read more.
Robert Hatcher (B.A. ’17, MBA ’20) conceived the idea for his company while in an entrepreneurship class as an undergrad here at Georgia State. An amateur musician and songwriter, his idea was to create a virtual music studio using blockchain technology — a kind of electronic ledger and the premise behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin — to track a song’s development from start to finish. Learn more.
The Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative (WEI) received a generous donation from the Atlanta Hawks Foundation to present a series of workshops, a pitch competition and grants for women entrepreneurs in the City of Atlanta. Business were divided into two groups one representing the Greater Atlanta Community and the second for their current cohort. Learn more.
Georgia State University’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute (ENI) has announced follow-on funding for select Main Street Entrepreneurs Seed Fund (MSESF) alumni companies. Seven companies from Main Street’s inaugural cohort (Cohort 1), which graduated from the business accelerator program in 2020, will be receiving an additional grant to use in scaling their ventures. Read more…
A student and professor from Georgia State University are among the winning teams in an international competition to promote innovative ways to help kindergarten through 12th-grade students get back on track with learning in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more.
